Explained
The stories behind the feed — each one walks through what's happening and why it matters.
Filipino workers abroad sent home a record $35.63 billion in 2025. The same system that produces that money is why hospitals cannot fill their wards, and the two facts are harder to separate than either side of the argument admits.
Government & Politics
Aug 8, 2026
The Constitution asks a candidate for president to be 40, a natural-born citizen, a resident, and able to read and write. No degree, no experience, no exam. Whether that should change is an older argument than it looks.
The Philippines is a market economy with protectionist clauses written into its Constitution, a communist insurgency in its sixth decade, and a live fight over both. The abstract debate obscures how specific the local one is.
Livelihood
Why a line on your electricity bill charges you for power that never reached your meter, what the law says about it, and why removing it is harder than the applause suggested.
A Pasig judge halted the P85 Metro Manila minimum wage increase. The Labor Code appears to forbid exactly that, and the reason it may not is a single word in the statute.
Aug 7, 2026
What confidential funds are, the disclosure law that was never written, and how ₱612.5 million left Land Bank in cash across seven cheques.
Jul 27, 2026
How the 1987 Constitution can be changed, why no attempt has ever reached a ratification plebiscite, and what each route would cost.
Economy
Jul 25, 2026
The US-led chip and AI coalition the Philippines joined in April 2026, the hub planned for New Clark City, and the water, power and land questions still unanswered.
